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Preferred term

bfiBritish Sign Language  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • British Sign Language (BSL) is the sign language used in the United Kingdom (UK), and is the first or preferred language of some deaf people in the UK; there are 125,000 deaf adults in the UK who use BSL plus an estimated 20,000 children. The language makes use of space and involves movement of the hands, body, face and head. Many thousands of people who are not deaf also use BSL, as hearing relatives of deaf people, sign language interpreters or as a result of other contact with the British deaf community.

ISO 639-3 code

  • bfi

In other languages

  • Britanski znakovni jezik

    Croatian

  • Brita mansigna lingvo

    Esperanto

  • Finnish

  • Langue des signes britannique

    French

  • British Sign Language

    German

  • Bahasa Isyarat British

    Malay

  • Lenga dij segn britànica

    Piedmontese

  • Língua de sinais britânica

    Portuguese

  • Breetish Sign Leid

    Scots

  • Swedish

  • Iaith Arwyddo Brydeining

    Welsh

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bfi

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